In This Issue New Ubuntu Website, Feisty Fawn (7.04) Beta Freeze, Bye bye Breezy and Ubuntu in Google's 2007 Summer of Code
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #32 for the week March11th – 18th, 2007. In this issue we cover Ubuntu's new Websiteredesign, Breezy Badger's end of the road and Ubuntu's involvement intthe year's Google Summer of Code. Feisty is also going into Beta, soeveryone can feel the excitement in the air.

The website team at Canonical have been hard at work on a new look forthe Ubuntu website and this week, that new look was unveiled. Based onDrupal, the old website was based on a customized MoinMoin engine, thenew website also sports a shiny new theme. Matthew Nuzum, Ubuntu.comwebmaster, said the Drupal theme is already ready to download andthemes for other CMS and Wikis would be made available soon. You cansee the new look at http://www.ubuntu.com and read Matthew's email athttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-March/001196.html

=== Bye bye Breezy! ===0n October 13th, 2005, Breezy Badger (5.10), the third Ubuntu releasewas announced. On Friday April 13th 2007, it will reach itsend-of-life and at that time, Ubuntu Security Notices will no longerinclude information or updated packages for Ubuntu 5.10.

* The Jail will not be viewable by Forum Members. Members will beable to see their own posts in the event a post is jailed. Matthew isgoing to revise the Current Forum Guidelines. * The Council is searching for a new Team Leader for the Hardwareteam. The leader will be decided at the Next FC meeting. * Ubuntu Forums will support an ISO testing team within the forums,and promote ISO testing. * Ubuntu Forums staff hiring process will not change. Matthew willput pen to paper and write out the process and send it to the other FCmembers for approval. * Ubuntu Forums will no longer honor a members request to deletetheir account. Members who add multiple accounts will be handled inthe following manner. First duplicate account, the member will receivean infraction. Second duplicate account, the member will be banned. * Ubuntu Forums will have a forum for Desktop-Effects. Finally aplace for all those “Beryl broke my compooter” threads. * Next meeting will be held on Wednesday, April 11th, 2007, 20:00 UTC

The GNOME Bugsquad will have a Bug Day from Wednesday, March 21, 16:00UTC to March 22, 05:00 UTC in #bugs on irc.gnome.org.

In order to encourage more ubuntu-women to get involved in theupcoming GNOME Bug Day, ubuntu-women is hosting a little session onhow to start triaging for GNOME in #ubuntu-women on March 20thstarting at 21:00 UTC. Everyone welcome to join!

Read the full emails from Susana on Ubuntu-Women mailing list here(you will also find relevant links to the GNOME Bug Day events):

=== New ISO Testing Team ===In the past, the Distro Team, formed by ubuntu-core-devs, tested allthe ISOs, in all the supported architectures, with a lot of testingcases, as you can see here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/MatrixBut there is a big problem with that: the developers can't focus infixing bugs, as they would do if they shouldn't have to test the ISOs.To improve this situation, we would like to make a Community effort,and form a Community Team which would test the ISOs, letting the devsconcentrate in fixing bugs, and improving Ubuntu!We are going to start with the Ubuntu and Kubuntu Live CDs in x86architectures. If you can help us out, just mail us toiso.testing@gmail.com (instructions in:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=383067).

== LoCo News ==

=== Ubuntu-PH participates in First Conference FOSS in eGovernance ===

The FOSS fiesta in eGovernance was held at EDSA Shangri-La last March7-8, 2007. With the active participation of the Ubuntu-ph team on thesaid event, with Yolyne Medina, Zak B. Elep and Juan Carlos Torrestaking charge of the Ubuntu-PH table.

Flemish education conference, the Ubuntu-be.org volunteers spreadtheir Edubuntu enthusiasm around the directors and ict-responsibles ofall Belgium schools. The VLOD-conference is the biggest educationconference in Flanders which about 8000 people, mainly decisionmakersattend. People were interested to discover this system everybody wastalking about.Ubuntu-be.org showed them the possibilities andadvantages of 'free software', and gave them a demo of thin clients.

== New in Feisty Fawn ==

=== Feisty Fawn (7.04) Beta Freeze ===

According to Tollef Fog Heen on the Ubuntu developers announcementlist, the freeze for uploads has taken affect in order to anticipatethe beta release of Feisty. The freeze took affect on Thursday andmeans that “During the freeze, all uploads to main [repository] mustbe approved by a member ofthe release team.” Any changes that need to be taken into affectshould go to the release team as soon as possible. These are excitingtimes for the whole Ubuntu community as it means the Feisty Fawn invery close to release.

=== Feisty translations now open! ===Launchpad team have imported existing translations both from Ubuntu6.10 (Edgy) and directly from upstream projects. Each language remainsuntranslated on the Feisty translations overview page.There are some problems converting from Open Office language packformat to the .po format used by Launchpad. This means that OpenOffice isn't yet available to translate.

iDart (Intelligent Dispensing of Antiretroviral Treatment) is a JavaGPL application used by antiretroviral (ARV) pharmacies to treat over8500 HIV patients. Cell-Life has created an iDart-in-a-box solutionrunning Ubuntu where the iDart database can be backed up securely overthe cellular network, making it useful in areas where there is noInternet connectivity. Read the full article:http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1407

Canonical announced its Partner Programme to stimulate awareness andadoption of open source platforms. This will help partners that useUbuntu as part of their solutions and help Canonical buildrelationships with vendors. Read the full article:http://www.ubuntu.com/news/Global-Partner-Program

=== Team of the Week: Mozilla Team ===The Mozilla Team is focused on raising the quality of the MozillaFoundation's application in Ubuntu. The Mozilla Team takes intoaccount the many packages that interact with Mozilla products, such asFlash, Java, and extensions. The Mozilla Team is strongly committed toupstream and relations. By analyzing crash reports, the Mozilla Teamhas found several master crash cases which are in progress. TheMozilla Team can be found at #ubuntu-mozillateam on irc.freenode.net.

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